President William Ruto of Kenya will visit Haiti on Saturday morning and will receive a formal diplomatic welcome, the Haitian government said Friday.

The visit comes several months after the deployment to Haiti of a Kenyan force that was meant to lead a multinational contingent to aid the Haitian police.

The mission has been plagued by ...Read more

Ukraine’s prospects for success in its defense against Russia might depend on “whether the Biden administration will be braver” and provide decisive support between the election and inauguration of the next U.S. president, Poland’s top diplomat told Bloomberg News on Friday.

The transition period offers “a window of opportunity to do ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The man found guilty of murdering Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German is now asking the court to hold a hearing to clarify statements jurors made after the trial.

At a trial last month, a jury found former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear declined Friday to comment on the motive behind the shooting of an Eastern Kentucky judge by a sheriff.

As a former prosecutor, Beshear said at a morning news conference in Frankfort, it was not appropriate to discuss what may have led up to Thursday’s death of Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection Friday evening for the killing of a Greenville County mother of three, becoming the first first person executed in South Carolina in 13 years.

Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for the murder of Irene Grainger Graves, a 41-year-old store clerk. On Nov. 1, 1997, following a series...Read more

CHICAGO — A trial over the constitutionality of Illinois’ ban on certain high-powered firearms ended this week after four days of arguments and now is in the hands of a federal judge who is expected to make a decision within the next few months.

The trial before U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn concluded in East St. Louis on Thursday. ...Read more

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is calling cap on his ex-girlfriend’s bombshell claims in a lawsuit alleging multiple types of physical, emotional and financial abuse.

The Brooklyn-born rapper, who last fall was arrested on accusations of assaulting two music producers, is the subject of a new legal complaint filed by his former flame Yailin La Más ...Read more

BOULDER, Colo. — Prosecutor Ken Kupfner loaded dummy bullets into a 30-round magazine in a hushed courtroom Friday morning.

He slowly pushed each bullet into the magazine — the same type of magazine used by the man who carried out a mass shooting at a Boulder King Soopers grocery store in 2021, killing 10 shoppers, employees and a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the summer of 2017, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, attended a party filled with drugs and paid escorts that was hosted by former state Rep. Chris Dorworth at his Heathrow home, according to witness testimony in newly filed federal court documents.

One of the escorts attending the get-together was the 17-year-...Read more

Google has monopolized the technology used to buy and sell online display ads by restricting or eliminating the choices of its customers — both website publishers and advertisers — the U.S. Justice Department alleged at a federal antitrust trial.

Antitrust enforcers have sought to illustrate how the Alphabet Inc. unit’s complex ad ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris Friday denounced former President Donald Trump for pushing extreme abortion bans after a bombshell new published report called the deaths of two Georgia moms “preventable.”

The Democratic presidential nominee slammed Trump for backing restrictive abortion laws like Georgia’s, which a state panel said played a...Read more

BOSTON — The ACLU is calling for a federal investigation into the death of Massachusetts State Police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia.

Delgado-Garcia, 25, died after suffering a “medical crisis” following a boxing “training exercise” earlier this month at the New Braintree Academy, according to the MSP.

An ACLU statement said his “...Read more

NEW YORK — A business jet hit a terminal building at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport Thursday night after rolling off the ramp while maneuvering, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The incident, first reported by NJ.com, occurred just before 10 p.m.

A Dassault Falcon business jet with five people on board had just ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal authorities slapped Mayor Eric Adams’ asylum seeker operations director, Molly Schaeffer, with a subpoena Friday requiring her to turn over records, including communications with Tim Pearson, a top adviser to the mayor with deep involvement in city migrant contracts, the Daily News has learned.

Schaeffer, a 10-year city ...Read more

ATLANTA — As Georgia students walked out of their classrooms on Friday to demand safety from gun violence, one of their own was laid to rest.

At St. Matthew Catholic Church in Winder, a funeral mass was held in honor of 14-year-old Christian Angulo, who was remembered for his gentle soul and the love he exuded for the people in his life. His ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Death penalty opponents began rallying outside the Broad River Correctional Institution Friday afternoon as South Carolina prepares to execute its first death row inmate in more than 13 years.

Freddie Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for the Nov. 1, 1997, murder of Irene Graves, a gas station clerk. A jury found that Owens, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida health officials reiterated Thursday that state law allows abortions at any point in pregnancy to save the life of the mother, responding to concerns that Florida’s new six-week abortion ban is tying doctors’ hands and putting women in danger.

The state’s “provider alert” said abortions can be performed “to...Read more